kill tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent syrians and iraqis, that is not who we are and that would be a strategy that would have an enormous backlash against the united states. it would be terrible for our national security. and here s what the president said about establishing a no-fly zone in syria, a position advocated by hillary clinton, jeb bush, chris christie, john kasich, marco rubio. the other new thing that people have suggested would be some variation of a no-fly zone or a safe zone. this is something we ve been talking about for three or four years. the challenge there is that isil doesn t have an air force so the damage done there is not against isil, it s against the syrian regime. creating a safe zone for syrian refugees, we ve tested. we ve looked at repeatedly.
national security. and here s what the president said about establishing a no-fly zone in syria, a position advocated by hillary clinton, jeb bush, chris christie, john kasich, marco rubio. the other new thing that people have suggested would be some variation of a no-fly zone or a safe zone. this is something we ve been talking about for three or four years. the challenge there is that isil doesn t have an air force so the damage done there is not against isil, it s against the syrian regime. creating a safe zone for syrian refugees, we ve tested. we ve looked at repeatedly. the problem is is that, again, without a large number of troops on the ground, it s hard to create a safe zone like that. and that doesn t solve the isil problem. joining us now hillary mann leverett, under president george w. bush and bill clinton, and jonathan stevenson at the u.s. naval war college who worked for
in our parliament. it makes no sense to be attacking isil on one side of an artificial line and not the other when isil doesn t recognize the boarder. this is one campaign. particularly, its headquarterers. it is these attacks being inspired, directed, organized and financed. attacks in western europe and the murders we saw recently on the streets of paris. go ahead, john. sir, could you talk about the potential roll for russia in this on going struggle? well, russia has intervened in this civil war on syria and been attacking the forces, the moderate forces opposed to the dicta
we had commission bill bratton seated right there and we gave him the comments from the white house that isil doesn t have the capacity to reach the united states and the look on his face said it all. excuse me, this is very real, of course this could happen here, of course we need to be aggressive and do more than what we re doing now. it s been a hall marc of president obama s campaign to be cool, be no drama and show no emotion. but this are moments when people want to see a little emotion. there are moments when people want to hear him say i recognize this is a problem, here s what i m going to do and not get mierd in political fights. he seemed more emotional and annoyed about that than the problem in front of him. i heard that that the only time he ever showed passion was when he was attacking republicans, not when he was talking about isis. does thie lack of emotion an passion match a lack of strategy. the u.s. government is coordinating with france.
this man said he was praying when the blast blew a door right of his head. the victims carried by bystanders over rubble from damaged buildings and rushed to nearby hospitals. a bomb, the twin suicide bombing went off. the area is mostly empty. it s been cordoned off by the army. otherwise, there is a it lo of shattered glass on the street and a lot of blood. it s a scene of chaos and carnage. reporter: within hours, isis claimed responsibility. this neighborhood is a stronghold of hezbollah, fighting along bashar al assad s regime. isil doesn t think of itself as having borders. let s remember why you say isis i say isil, they say is the stlamic islamic state. and they are trying to establish a caliphate which means an islamic government covering all the areas where muslims live today in the world,